People Are Expressing Outrage Over Trump’s Boy Scouts Of America Speech

In case you’ve somehow been living under a rock, you may have heard that President Trump gave a politically charged speech at the Boy Scouts of America’s annual Jamboree in West Virginia before 40,000 youth on Monday evening, that is being compared by many to more of a Nazi rally. Of all of the outrageous and reprehensible things Trump has said and done over the past six months of his presidency, this seems to have really struck a raw nerve with people for a number of reasons.

First and foremost, these are impressionable minds, and the tone and language the president used was strongly considered to be of an indoctrinating nature, between encouraging chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and his sinister claims of needing “some more loyalty.” And then there was encouraging the Scouts to boo former President Barack Obama, who himself was a Boy Scout (while Trump was not), when the organization is supposed to teach boys valuable lessons about respect.

For these reasons and many others, people are furious over Trump’s remarks. As Chicago Tribute columnist Rex Huppke pointed out Monday night, concerned parents (and others) had flooded the Boy Scouts of America page to admonish the organization over the nature of the speech, and its failure to immediately issue an apology or retraction in the aftermath.

This is a case-study in how not to handle a PR nightmare. Look at that BSA statement, talking about the invitation and his role of honorary BSA president. NO ONE’S COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT!

The complaints lie with the content of his speech and what he delivered to a crowd overwhelmingly full of minors. He was political. He was dishonorable. He upheld (at best) one of the 12 points of the Scout Law, because his noted germaphobe tendencies earn him proximity credit for “clean.”

But NOTHING else in that entire tirade did anything to positively influence the youth in attendance or support the Scouting movement as a whole. That’s the point the BSA should be focusing on right now, not defending their invitation of him in the first place.

People are saying the scouts actually loved it. I mean, 12 year olds love discussing politics. They know what’s going on. You’re never too young to jump on the Trump train (as it charges off a cliff)! Toot – toot!

Part-Time Genius just had an episode about the Scouts and how a big part of their history revolves around not being seen as a pre-military training ground or to have any strong political views organizationally. So, this was weird.

Trump is not trustworthy. Trump is not loyal. Trump is not helpful. Trump is not friendly. Trump is not courteous. Trump is not kind. Trump is not obedient. Trump is not cheerful. Trump is not thrifty. Trump is not brave. Trump is not clean. Trump is not reverent.

Remember potus is a germaphobe – so he gets half-credit for “clean” (and only half, because the cleanliness point of the Scout Law also includes the mind which…well, he dropped a yacht-orgy story to a field predominantly full of minors, so there’s that).

so he gets a 0.5 out of 12…which makes his performance here statistically worse than his health care bill’s popularity or his job approval rating. So much winning…

In the state with the highest overdose death rates in the country (WV) he’s talking about ending ACA. He literally wants to kill the hands that are applauding him. It’s beyond insane. The gassy pumpkin can’t resist making everything about himself, at all times, regardless of how inappropriate it is. He belongs in a cage. There’s just no occasion this dough-bellied fraud won’t use to gloat and whine about himself, he’s a repellent piece of trash.